Two Albanian citizens declared internationally wanted have been arrested in Italy as part of two new phases of the operation codenamed "The Wanted".

The arrests were made following the cooperation of Interpol Tirana with its counterparts from Interpol Rome. One of the arrested, Muhamet Bedulla, 33, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder. According to the State Police, in 2017 he stabbed a person with whom he had a conflict three times.

UB, 26 years old, has also been arrested, against whom the Elbasan Court has ordered "Arrest in prison" for drug trafficking and illegal possession of combat ammunition. Albanian and Italian authorities are continuing the procedures for the extradition of the two arrested to Albania.

Police notification

State Police/Two more phases of the operation codenamed "The Wanted" are being finalized.

Arrested in Italy, 2 citizens convicted/accused of attempted murder with a cutting instrument, sale of narcotics and illegal possession of combat ammunition.

Following the close cooperation with Italian partners, concretized through operational and information coordination between specialists of the Interpol Directorate and counterparts of Interpol Rome, 2 more phases of the operation codenamed "The Wanted" were finalized, which resulted in the arrest in Italy, with the aim of extradition to Albania, of 2 citizens declared internationally wanted. Specifically, the citizens were arrested:

-Muhamet Bedulla, 33 years old, whom the Korça Court sentenced in 2018 to 10 years in prison for the criminal offense of "Intentional Murder", remaining in the attempted stage. In 2017, this citizen attempted to kill citizen AS (the father of the citizen with whom he had a conflict in Korça), whom he wounded three times with a cutting tool (knife). The 33-year-old has 3 years and 4 months of imprisonment left to serve from his sentence;

-UB, 26 years old, to whom the Elbasan Court, in 2025, assigned the security measure "Arrest in prison", for the criminal offenses "Production and sale of narcotics" and "Unlicensed possession and production of weapons, explosive weapons and ammunition". In 2024, citizen UB was caught selling the narcotic Cannabis Sativa, and is accused of having kept in his apartment, a significant amount of combat cartridges and 2 pistol magazines.

Interpol Tirana and Interpol Rome continue to cooperate to finalize the procedures for the extradition of the two citizens to Albania.